St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-13
Some Excellent Points Made Regarding
the Governor Generals Opportun-
ity to Answer the Charges.
Either the Canadian Parliament Erred
in Passing Resolutions of Sym
pathy With the Irish,
Or the Dominion Ruler Is Not in Ac-
cord With the Free People Vino
Pay His Salary.

this city might be regarded as tri-
umph. 1t seemed on the arrival of the
train at the depot as though the whole
city had turned out to cheer and well
come him. He was met at the suburb
of Mount Loratte by deputa-
ton ton o of the Quebec Land League
the depot was placed in a carriage
drawn by four black horses and decor
ated with the Irish and French flags,
followed by long procession through
the streets, in which much bunting was
displayed, and driven to hotel amid
the cheers of the people. Thereafter
he was conducted to the local
parliament house and introduced to
many members of both houses at
the time the motion of want of
confidence in the government in relation
to the federation act was being debated,
and all the members, French, English
and Irish alike, crowded around the ed
ltor, conversing with him eagerly and
shaking him warmly by the hand.
Speakers Marchand, of the legislative
assembly, and De La Breyere, of
the Legislative council, requested a
special interview after the adjournment,
and expressed warm sympathy. What
was most significant at to-night's meet
ing in the academy of music, aside from
the crowded house and the enthusiasm
OF the audience, and what O'Brien re-
marked upon in an especial way, were
Tory eX-sOlicitOr general, E. J, Flynn and
James McShane, the commissioner of
agriculture and public works, expressing
sympathy for Ireland, and the especial
object of O'Brien's visit. jeremiah
Gallagher, president of the local branch
OF the National league, occupied the
chair. He spoke severely of the COVER
nor general in the opening address.
When O'Brien's turn came to speak,
THE SCENE OF ENTHUSIASM
was even greater than that at Montreal.
The audience, many of whom were
women, cheered and waved hats, hand
kerchiefs and umbrellas frantically.
In his speech here tonight Mr.. O'Brien
said he had to express his acknowledge
ment not merely to his friends, but to
his opponents, for the courtesy and fair
play he had received up to the present
time. He believed that a good many
prejudices and misunderstanding which
had arisen with reference to his visit
here,Were being already dispelled, and he
expressed his confidence that the more
the subject was thrashed out the more
severely every humane and liberty-lov-
ing man i'll Canada would condemn
the conduct of Lord Lansdowne, and
the more they would recognize that this
visit was the only means left to avert
the total destruction of an entire com
munity of oppressed and cruelty
wronged tenants. The Irish people had
not sought this quarrel with Lord Lans-
dOwne. He had himself forced it by
making himself the champion and
standard bearer Of the worst and most
inlluman class of rack renters in Ire
land. Q1isses.) "The Montreal Herald
of to-day he continued, '.took up the
position with which l did not for one
moment quarrel. that the Canadian peo-
pie would not take, on the statement of
others, the assertion that Lord LanS-
downe was as
BLACK AS HE WAS PAINTED
until the other side was heard from. l
invite and challenge Lord Lansdowne
to answer or dispute a single fact which
the Herald says should not be accepted
until he has had an opportunity of doing
this. Lord LanSdOWne need not shelter
himself under the plea that his official
position prevents him from defending
himself, In free country like this the
press is as open to him as to any one
lapplauSe], and as matter of fact Lord
LanSdOWne has already very Signif-
cantly availed himself of the ordinary
channels of newspaper defense. He
has on more than one occasion
through interviews and communicates
official done his utmost to
prejudice the Canadian people with
reference to my visit, and he cannot
now pretend so to wrap himself up in
majesty as to decline to defend himself
against an Indictment which, if un-
answered, will bring upon him the rep
rotation of Canadian. public opinion.
[ApplauSe. The fact is my Lord Lans-
downe's trouble is not that he is de-
barred from defending himself, but the
defense which he has already offered is
a weak and a misleading and lame de-
fenSe. Renewed cheers. Not only
has Lord Lansdowne literally availed
himself of newspaper interviews in his
own defense, but his agent, one of the
MOST ASTUTE OF LIVING MEN,
did exhaust all the resources of his in
genuity through the Atlantic cable to
obscure and prejudice the Judgment of
the Canadian public in the interest of
his master, Wisses). Lord Lansdowne
wants not so much advocates in the
press as material to supply them and
himself with an adequate answer. The
only refuge now of his defenders ap-
pears to be in the absurd notion that it
is as governor general of Canada, and
not as an Irish evict0r, that / am here
| to arraign him. Lord Lansdowne has
| himself forgotten his high Office
| as the governor of free peo-
pie when he carried and is
carrying out in Ireland proceedings
in direct violation of the principles
which the Canadian parliament has
again and again affirmed with relation
to Ireland. If l be wrong in inviting
public condemnation of the Lugacurran
| evictiOnS, then the members of the Can
adian parliament were wrOfg in pre-
senting resolutions denouncing the in
famous landlords and the coercive syS-
TEN in Ireland. | hold, on the contrary,
that it is the highest right and duty of
those constitutionally enjoying the
blessings of Self-government to know
whether the ruler of the country was
not himself forgetting the very injustice
which the Canadian parliament
deprecated and abhorred. Either
they ought to expunge their
resolutions of sympathy for Ireland
from the books of the Canadian parlia-
ment OF they ought to acknowledge that
their ruler should pay little more
Difference to the principles enunciated
| by the representatives of the Canadian
| people. Cheers. The days are gone
| by when the Irish tenantry will submit
| to eviction with detected and hopeless
| hearts. Our race is beginning to use
| its strength. We know that. no Irish
extermnater can now find in all the
world around Il spot where he can hide
| his head from the Judgment and con-
y a.